[daip] [Fwd: AIPS vnc error message]

[Katie Mae Chynoweth]

Hi Eric,

I hope I am not bothering you, I am not sure of the right place to direct
AIPS questions. Rather than try to fix this over VNC, I decided to go for
a more permanent solution and install AIPS on my laptop, which is a
MacBook Pro running Leopard v10.5.2. I almost have it working, except for
the TV. I get this error:

XAS: Using screen width height 1430 778, max grey level 255
Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument

And I tried the fix from http://www.aips.nrao.edu/aipsmgr/, (create an
/etc/sysctl.conf file and put the values in it listed on the webpage), but
this still yields the same error message. Any help would be very
appreciated!

Thanks,
Katie Chynoweth

> Glen Langston writes:
>  > Hi Eric,
>
>  Had you sent this to daip you would have had an answer sooner - I was
> on vacation.
>
>  > A student at Vanderbilt U. was here last summer
>  > and used AIPS to do some GBT imaging work.  She's
>  > trying to finish up some final details of our paper
>  > and then move on to some VLA archive work.
>  >
>  > She's using a computer in GB planck.gb.nrao.edu
>  > with AIPS and uses VNC on her home computer.   All
>  > is working OK, except the AIPS TV which is yielding
>  > an error messages (below)
>  >
>  > Any suggestions?
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Glen
>  >
>  > PS did NRAO ever get a loaner laptop with AIPS on it for
>  > short term use by visitors?
>
>    That would be a site issue - the loaners here are for staff use
> only and may have an aips on them although I would not expect a
> current version.
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  > ---------------------------- Original Message
> ----------------------------
>  > Subject: AIPS vnc error message
>  > From:    "Katie Mae Chynoweth" <kchynowe at nrao.edu>
>  > Date:    Thu, February 21, 2008 7:05 pm
>  > To:      glangsto at nrao.edu
>  > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  >
>  > Hi Glen,
>  >
>  > I tried using AIPS from radar instead of planck, and I also tried the
>  > 'xhost +' command, and I still get this error:
>  >
>  > Starting up 31DEC05 AIPS with normal priority
>  > XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on radar
>  > TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
>  > XASERVERS: Start XAS on radar, DISPLAY :1.0
>  > XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on radar, DISPLAY :1.0
>  > XAS: ***********************************
>  > XAS: **  No TrueColor found
>  > XAS: **  Resorting to PseudoColor
>  > XAS: ***********************************
>  > XAS: No pseudocolor visual - No suitable visual: No such file or
> directory
>  > XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on radar, DISPLAY :1.0
>  >
>
> Please see the aips manager FAQ page for info on dealing with this.
> You have not changed the default X11 setup which is 16-bit "Truecolor"
> for which I refuse to modify AIPS (levels 0-31 for grey scales!)
>
> http://www.aips.nrao.edu/aipsmgr/
>
> Eric Greisen
>


-- 
Katie Mae Chynoweth
Graduate Research Assistant
NRAO Green Bank Telescope